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Monday, October 21, 2013

Illinois Gun Bills Up

HB3646 – DANGEROUS BILL – Bans Concealed Carry in
any restaurant that has alcoholic beverages on the
menu. Drastically reduces your choices on when and
how to protect yourself. This bill is a foot in the
door to create a growing list of places where you
will be prohibited from protecting yourself and your
family from dangerous criminals.

HB3669 – DANGEROUS BILL - This bill eliminates “safe
haven” provisions for areas near schools – meaning
that you could not even have a firearm locked in
your trunk if you drive on to ANY property
controlled by a school district. Once again, this
bill would severely limit your self defense options
and would make you a felon for doing nothing more
than possessing a firearm. Under this bill, you
would have to leave your defensive firearms at home
if your plans called for you to enter any lands
controlled by a school district. The real purpose of
this bill is to pave the way for sweeping
prohibitions on concealed carry that would make self
defense impractical and a serious legal risk for
most Illinois citizens.

HB3675 – DANGEROUS BILL – This bill would severely
increase penalties for persons found to be carrying
firearms in restricted areas. This bill is designed
solely to scare law-abiding citizens out of carrying
defensive firearms. This bill in no way targets
gang-bangers or other violent criminals.

SB2594 – DANGEROUS BILL – This is another bill that
would prohibit carry in restaurants that have
alcoholic beverages on the menu.

HB3651 – GOOD BILL – This bill lowers the burdensome
16-hour training rule to a more reasonable 8-hour
requirement. This bill also eliminates the
re-training requirements for carry permit renewals.
In short, this bill undoes that anti-gunners’
attempts to discourage people from applying for
carry permits by easing burdensome training
requirements.

HB3650 – GOOD BILL – This bill provides for
concealed carry reciprocity between Illinois and
dozens of other states.

HB3649 – GOOD BILL – This bill reduces the
exorbitant fees the State Police plan on charging
people for permit applications. The state should not
be allowed to price-gouge citizens who want to
defend themselves. This bill would make fees more
reasonable and thus allow greater access to self
defense for Illinois citizens.